Flipping like a pancake and popping like a cork

Analysis, commentary on political, social, economic and media trends. Author Lyle Jenish spent over 13 years in print and electronic media, as a: managing newspaper editor; features editor for a number of British-based business magazines; writer for the National Post, Globe and Mail and Report on Business magazine; television news assignment editor and a finalist for a number of writing awards, including a 2008 finalist in the investigative journalism category, National Magazine Awards.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Katie Couric blogs plagiarized story, producer fired

Plagiarism squared - At The Daily Background blog, Arlen Parsa notes that "this type of situation would never have happened in the first place had Couric bothered to write her own brief commentaries instead of reading someone else’s work from a TelePrompTer."

"Ironically, instead of only portraying someone else’s work as hers in the library 'page from my notebook' as she normally does, Couric portrayed someone else’s work which was already being portrayed as someone else’s work: a double case of plagiarism," Parsa writes.